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Gr~1ce
A/Jou11ding,
,of his
Bleffi~d
G'race
thorow ·
him;
Whete- ·
fore no-w
1
altered
in
my
Preaching.
1
for ftill
Ipr.eached whatJ ,faw and felt) now there–
fo,re.
I ~- ~
id
1
1
11
t1C~h ~a
bou
r
to
hol~
forth Jefus
Cnnft
tn a ;l
h;s Offices,
Re1attons, and Be;.
ne·fits
unto the World,
and
did ·
ftrive
alfo .
to
d
i
u:over, to condemn, and retnove
thofe
fJl
fe fu pports
and'props on
w
hic:h the world ·
doth
both lean.,
and
by them fan and perifh.
On
thefe things
alfo
I ftaid as
long
as
on.
the
other.
· ·
·
.
·
28o.
Afcer
this God
led
me
into
fome
thi ng of the
~1yfrery
of the
U'ni0n
of Chrift; ·
lvherefore
tllJt I
difcovered
a·1d fl1ewed to
them alfo.-
And whe n I
h·1d
travelled
through thefe
three· chief points .of
the
Word of God, abou t tbe fpace
of
five years
or n1orc, I was caught in
n1y
prefent Pra-. ·
etice, anr-1 caft into Prifon,
\Vhere
J
have
lain
abo~e
as long
:1gain
to
c.; nfi qn
the 'fruth
_by
way
ofSuffcrint;'J as
I
was
before
in
t~rri
fying
of
it,
according to the Scri ptnres, in a
way
of
Pr~ :. ching.
,
.
2.81 .
When I have
been
in
Preaching,
I
-thank
God ,
my
heart hath often
1
all
t'he
time of this
and the
other
exercife
with
great
earneftnr.fs cryed to
God,
that he.w·ould m·ake
the word effectual to the Salvation of
the
.Spul ;
ftitl being
grieved
Jeaft
the
Enemy
fhould take the· word away
fron1
tl1e
Con·
fcience, and
fo
it
fhould
becon1e
unfr.nitful;
Wherefore
1
fhould
lacour
fo to fpeak the
Yrord. · As
that
~h.er~by
(
~!.i~ ~ere
poffi
ble